Eugene Song
Eugene has an MBA, with Dean's List Honors, from Columbia Business School, and a BSE in civil engineering from Princeton University. While at Princeton, Eugene ran a publishing business, supplying facebooks to the University community.
Eugene has over 16 years of private equity, venture capital, and corporate finance experience. His specializations are in growth equity and secondary investing across technology, business services, consumer products, and financial services.
Eugene is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Madison Bay Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on middle-market and growth equity investments in the US.
Previously, he was an investor for 9 years at W Capital Partners, a private equity firm managing over $1.7 billion in capital. While at W Capital, Eugene was involved in all aspects of the investment and portfolio management process and held Board seats at BigFix (acq. by IBM), Bay Microsystems, CompBenefits Corporation (acq. by Humana), Courion Corp, MarketTools (acq. by TPG/SurveyMonkey), Outlast Technologies (acq. by Coors), Three-Dog Bakery, Tremor Video (IPO), and ZNYX Networks, among many others.
Prior to joining W Capital in 2004, Eugene was an Associate at Stone Point Capital, a private equity firm managing over $9 billion. While at Stone Point, Eugene focused on the technology and financial services sectors and invested in companies such as: CashEdge (acq. by Fiserv), CompuBank (acq. by NetBank), Harbor Payments (acq. by American Express), and LendingTree (IPO, now part of IAC). Eugene began his career as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, where he worked in the Technology M&A group. He also worked in the Enterprise Systems Group at Hewlett-Packard in the areas of finance and strategic investments.
As a member of Class 14, Eugene served his fellowship under mentor David Wachter at W Capital Partners.